A review by middenprincess
Shadow Scale by Rachel Hartman

2.0

i don’t like this one as much as i feel it is not as organized as the first book. i liked part of the ending but i also feel as though a lot is missing from it. maybe i’m just overly attached to orma and the open ending leaves me a bit disappointed. i also don’t like the lack of resolution with seraphina/kiggs/selda. i feel like glisselda honest to god always had more chemistry with seraphina and i feel like glisselda getting with the ityasaari and musician that everyone has a good opinion of (seraphina) would have appeased the people as much as her marrying lucian. i also just don’t think kiggs and seraphina ever had good chemistry! glisselda always saw seraphina as she was when she first became her harpsichord teacher. also, coming back to orma, i feel so awful that jannoula took him away as well. it just felt like an unsatisfying ending for a character like seraphina. it felt like she really never developed a backbone or as a character, like she was just passively experiencing everything that happened in the book. she also deserved better than losing the uncle who was more of a father to her than her own father. orma lost parts of himself he likely could never get back, and for what? and are she and the queen and king a triad now or is she just lucian’s side piece while glisselda pines for her because that feels fucking unfair for everyone involved… also why is eskar having ardmagar’s egg that also feels unfair as hell to orma unless dragons aren’t as monogamous as humans, which was really never explained!!